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541.
by mmastrac 2y ago
As a follow-up to [2], even more interesting is the text of covered persons: "military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major no
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I'm fully aware but it's not a problem that warmup runs fix. An executable freshly compiled will always benchmark differently than one that has "cooled off" on macos, regardless of warmup runs. I've tried to underst
543.
by mmastrac 2y ago
Hyperfine is a great tool but when I was using it at Deno to benchmark startup time there was a lot of weirdness around the operating system apparently caching inodes of executables. If you are looking at shaving sub 20ms numbers, be aware
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Wi
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Is this the reason for the current black bar? EDIT: Maybe Thomas Kurtz? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I've turned down a number of jobs in the last few years because of unrealistic interview requirements. One asked for a 20+ page personality assessment (perhaps completing that _was_ the test?). The other asked for an interesting techni
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I use CF Tunnel to serve progscrape.com. It's easily the best way to serve from home infrastructure, IMO.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I love whimsy. > You are writing an CPU emulator in TeX, the TYPESETTING system? Yep. > Are you insane? Not that anybody knows of.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
"many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. " At some point when does cyber warfare become an act of war? Full text for those blocked: The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, man
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Looks like it is. The Apple HRTF should be much more accurate than QSound -- QSound was designed to work without any analysis.
551.
by mmastrac 2y ago
QSound was magic at the time. We had a DSP class in my EE degree where we implemented a very minor transform that would shift position of audio and it was wild. It's impossible to get 3D audio to be absolutely as flawless as the real w
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Claude Shannon was the Fabrice Bellard of his time (or is it the other way around?). If he were around today, his projects would constantly be on HN. I am curious to know if there's a gene for these incredibly driven, very intelligent
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Yep, it's open-source: https://github.com/progscrape/progscrape/blob/master/web/src... Here's where we handle the rate limits: https://github.com/progscrape/progscrape
554.
by mmastrac 2y ago
Literally that, it would throw exceptions with the compiler error. And as a sibling comment mentioned and I had forgotten -- it would allow for hotpatching code at runtime as you fixed compiler errors. You could literally start the skeleton
555.
by mmastrac 2y ago
This is semi-related to one of the killer features of Eclipse that never really made it into any large-scale systems: the ability to run incomplete or broken code. The Eclipse Compiler for Java had a special feature that it could generate b
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I found that I was getting random bot attacks on progscrape.com with no identifiable bot signature (ie: a signature matching a valid Chrome Desktop client), but at a rate that was only possible via bot. I ended up having to add token bucket
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This post is subtly wrong: "multiple read-only pointers XOR one mutable pointer" is actually "multiple read-only references XOR one mutable reference". It _is_ valid to have multiple mutable pointers, just as C and C++ a
558.
by mmastrac 2y ago
Ack. I have a bot there. I appreciate the extended warning time.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The legacy video game libraries were kept alive by emulator developers and ROM collectors. Now that these emulators have re-invigorated enough interest to make some $$$, they want to kill them and reap the dough. Copyright needs to be drast
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Adventure (but it's admittedly a very difficult game to win): https://grack.com/demos/adventure/
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by mmastrac 2y ago
GPU memory is 20 MT/s+, Apple is ~6 MT/s, LPCAMM supports ~7500 MT/s. Easy heuristic: if your memory transfer rate is more than 1.5x the standard, you can solder RAM. If not, you must use the standard.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> optimally drain their wallets I mean, that's basically it. The difference between part costs of 8GB/16GB/32GB RAM chips is nearly a rounding error, and they're probably eating a bunch more costs stocking and adding
563.
by mmastrac 2y ago
The problem is the insane markups, but my anecdata is the opposite of yours. I'm also doing Rust dev, but I can't work with less than ~24GB. On my headless rackmount dev box that I use for my remote development environment, the bo
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by mmastrac 2y ago
If 32GB is the max, why not just make that the one and only model and get rid of this weird segmentation. That's a ridiculously low minimum and only just barely adequate. 8GB was practically criminal. Or -- and I know this is crazy --
565.
by mmastrac 2y ago
BASEQI worked for me. The model numbers and support matrix are a bit confusing, but I've had it in my M3 for ~5-6 months with only one time the SD card didn't appear to be mounted after a reboot. Zero unintended ejections.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Kudos for something that I wish existed before I bought my M3. FWIW, with the re-introduced SD card slot and slimline SD holders, you can easily add 512GB to 1TB of decent-speed attached storage for larger files/backups/source, et
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An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program: Operational Applications (1995) [pdf](cia.gov)
37 points by mmastrac 2y ago|23 comments
568.
by mmastrac 2y ago
Older wall clocks used synchronous motors which would literally move the second hand using the waveform from the A/C power. As loads on generators went up, the effective RPMs went down, causing downstream power to run at slightly slowe
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I feel like this is all smoke and mirrors to redirect from the likelihood intentional silicon backdoors that are effectively undetectable. Without open silicon, there's no way to detect that -- say -- when registers r0-rN are set to va
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Well yeah, that's why I said it was "art" :). It's very subjective what's readable and what isn't, and putting code on HN without syntax highlighting (and with the ironic difficulty of editing code here) is one

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